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Meister Eckhart understands that human beings are thrown into meaning, that we live out our lives in meaning and that the source of this meaning is beyond our understanding. We always have an understanding of the world in which we live but we do not determine this understanding and we do not have the ability to understand the source of this understanding. This is the basic principal of philosophical hermeneutics which we also find in the work of Heidegger and Gadamer. However, there did come a time when human beings became arrogant enough to view the world as ‘n collection of objects which can be fully and finally known by manking. During the age of enlightenment man understood himself as the source of meaning and asserted his power over understanding. This arrogance would not last long. During the nineteenth century scalars like Dilthey recognized the fundamental historicity of human being. Dilthey understood that man is bound to the meaning of his age. However, he could not reject the arrogance of the scientific worldview which staked a claim on the possibility of absolute knowledge. Thus he chose to carry this prejudice into the sphere of the human sciences and constructed a new foundation for man’s power over meaning. We who study hermeneutics enjoy praising Heidegger for his insight and contribution towards hermeneutics. It is said that Heidegger discovered the absolute finitude and historicity of human being. This may well be true, but it is a shame that scholars mostly ignore the contribution of Edmund Husserl. In this document I claim that it was Husserl who laid the foundation for the new movement in hermeneutics in Germany of which Heidegger and Gadamer has been the major exponents. In the words of Gadamer, this movement may be called “Philosophical Hermeneutics” since it does not only include a method for understanding but also encompasses a way of thinking about human being in general. In my view the current discourse on the origin and development of philosophical hermeneutics represents a great injustice since the philosophy of Husserl is neglected in this discourse. In this writing I shall try to rectify this injustice by illuminating the contribution that Husserl has made to philosophical hermeneutics. Firstly I will show that Husserl’s philosophy is fundamentally about meaning. In his early distributive psychology he struggles with the question of the origin of concepts. With his concept of intentionally he rejects the traditional ontology of the object in order to make place for the ontological integrity of meaning. Unlike his predecessors he claim that objects are determined by meaning instead of the other way around. In his transcendental phenomenology he goes a step further by proclaiming that the Ego is nothing but pure existence and that consciousness in nothing but he existence of meaning. These insights are easy to overlook due to Husserl’s obsession with epistemology. His philosophy is all but consistent. But it is especially by means of this inconsistency that Husserl makes his contribution to philosophical hermeneutics. We may compare Husserl with Moses. Like Moses he reaches the top of the mountain Sinai where he can look upon the Promised Land. But, unlike Moses, he turns his back on this new land and stares back at the desert of epistemology. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Philosophy / unrestricted

Thousands of women in Canada continue to be diagnosed every year with breast cancer, many undergoing surgical mastectomy as part of their treatment to eradicate or control the spread of disease. At present, the recommendation for breast conserving surgery (BCS) and breast reconstruction dominates discourse in oncological settings, limiting conversations about alternative options for women to consider following the removal of their breast(s). Interesting however is the decision, made by some women in contemporary society, to undertake unconventional practices such as being inscribed with tattoos where breasts once occupied space. Unfortunately, little is known about the experiences of women who have foregone reconstructive surgery and chose to be tattooed post mastectomy. A Gadamerian philosophical hermeneutic approach was used to explore the phenomenon of being tattooed post mastectomy. Six women with mastectomy tattoos were interviewed to learn about the experiences of being tattooed where breast(s) once occupied space. Participants in this study were between 48 and 65 years of age and tattooed from one month to five years after surgery. Meanings about being tattooed post mastectomy surfaced through conversation and photographs. Gadamer’s hermeneutic teachings were engaged to analyze women’s thoughts, feelings, and photographed images of participant tattoos, surfacing meaning about being tattooed where breasts once existed. To establish a passage for understanding, three publishable manuscripts constitute the body of the dissertation. The first manuscript presents my personal narrative [in part] of being diagnosed with breast cancer and undergoing a mastectomy without reconstruction. In the second manuscript, the socio-cultural context of why the mastectomized female body is considered abject in contemporary society is examined. Further, I explore how a mastectomy tattoo may be an emerging alternative for some women following the loss of their breasts(s). In the third manuscript the key interpretive discoveries through hermeneutic analysis of interviews and photographs are presented and include: (1) Feeling sad and damaged post mastectomy (2) Reclaiming self: Taking back power and control; and (3) Transformation: Embodying the tattoo as a novel representation of self. These interpretive findings suggest aesthetic options such as tattooing embolden participants to reclaim power and control lost to cancer and transformed their self perceptions of beauty, femininity, and sexual identity post mastectomy. This dissertation contributes to women’s health, specifically within the field of oncology by offering what I understand to be the first phenomenological study interpreting lived experiences of being tattooed post mastectomy. Understanding how women may feel sad and damaged following surgery opens avenues for empathetic questioning and therapeutic supports from nurses. Sharing experiences of women who found the process of designing and being tattooed transformational and empowering may introduce new options post mastectomy that include aesthetics and beauty. Gaining insight into this unique phenomenon can help make meaning about how aesthetic options such as tattooing can empower some women who may be searching for alternatives to breast reconstruction post mastectomy. Furthermore, challenging dominant discourses specific to how women’s bodies should look can create spaces for discursive conversations and optimistically expand options beyond those currently offered post mastectomy. / Graduate

This thesis drew upon the resources of philosophical hermeneutics to construct a conceptual framework for understanding the process of educational change. The experience of a particular case of change was then analysed from the perspective of the hermeneutic change agency framework. The conceptual framework for the thesis was developed from the writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer and also from writers who engaged with Gadamer, most notably, Paul Ricoeur and Jurgen Habermas. The retrieval orientation in Gadamer's hermeneutics was balanced by the critical analyses of Ricoeur and Habermas. Gadamer's notion of the 'fusion of horizons' was presented as the culmination of the change process: a fusion between the horizon of the change text, and the horizons of the change process participants. The thesis explored the potential of hermeneutic strategies such as play and conversation as a means to animate a hermeneutic form of change agentry. The case investigated in this thesis was a change process comprised of four strategies conducted over the years 1980 to 1996 at a Jesuit school located on the east coast of Australia. The change strategies aimed to promote the Jesuit ethos of the school and hence have been described in this thesis as 'ethos strategies'. The purpose of the thesis was not to evaluate the success of the ethos strategies, it was to explore how insights derived from philosophical hermeneutics could illuminate an analysis of the lived experience of a particular case of change. The subject matter of this thesis is timely because many Catholic schools are currently in a period of transition from a leadership exercised by Religious (nuns, brothers or priests) to a leadership exercised by lay people. The thesis situated the ethos programs in their theological and demographic contexts by presenting relevant theological developments from the Second Vatican Council and by describing the sharp decrease in the numbers of Religious personnel available to work in the schools. The teacher response to the ethos programs was considered in the context of the many practical difficulties associated with the scheduling of teacher development programs in fast-moving and busy schools. Although this thesis was particularly focused on change strategies that were conducted in the context of Jesuit education, the thesis is more generally situated in the research literature on educational change. The hermeneutic orientation of this thesis highlighted the elements of understanding, interpretation and meaning, and these elements are given some prominence in the more recent research literature on the change process. The complexity of change and the cultural dimension of the change process has been emphasised in the most recent educational change research literature and these themes have also found expression in this thesis. Participant observation, document analysis and qualitative interviews were used as data collection strategies for the case study in this thesis. The researcher was actively involved in the events investigated in the case study, and a case narrative was developed from the researcher's experience as a change agent responsible for implementing one of the change strategies at the case site. The case narrative was written in the first person and from the perspective of the researcher as a change manager. The methodology of the research was grounded in the hermeneutic insight that understanding and tact lies at the heart of the research process, rather than procedure and method. Hermeneutic research relies upon a capacity to identify and respond to the question that is presented by the expression of life being understood. Change agentry was presented in this thesis as unfolding in a middle space between the familiarity of current practice and the unfamiliarity of the new world that a change process seeks to open up. Hermeneutics has long understood that that interpretation would be impossible if the expressions of life were totally alien and unnecessary if there was nothing alien in them. A hermeneutic approach to change agentry seeks to discover points of commonality and points of challenge between the world of current practice and the world that the change process would open up. This thesis points to the tactful and dialogical dimensions of change agency when it is considered from the vantage point of philosophical hermeneutics.

This study opens with an introduction to the transpersonal orientation, which Boucouvalas presents as a meta-framework of the transpersonal field that includes individual, group/societal, and planetary/cosmic domains. Three major theoretical perspectives of the field framed the study: the hierarchical stages of development, spiral path, and participatory. I offer a philosophical hermeneutic reading of the Qur'an to trace the development of human collective consciousness as a construct of the interaction between the autonomous and homonomous self at the individual, group, and cosmic levels on one plane of reality with the Divine on the other. This analysis, which utilizes Gadamer's conceptualization of philosophical hermeneutics as a research philosophy, concludes that this process of collective human development is comprised of three clearly distinct representations: familial, national, and cosmic/planetary. I articulate development and growth as a process of the expansion of collective consciousness. The cosmic/planetary human consciousness represents the ultimate reach of this expansion, for it assimilates the national and familial types while simultaneously transforming and transcending them within its reach. Based on the historical development of human consciousness in the Qur'an depicted in this study, I propose that human collective consciousness has reached the domains of cosmic consciousness, which began at the time of the Qur'an being read by Muhammad. However, individuals and groups may still operate within the limiting boundaries of national consciousness in the form of religious, ethnic, racial, and nation states. The Qur'an, and possibly other religious texts, should be understood within this expanded cosmic/planetary consciousness reach because they represent humanity's collective heritage. Moreover, those individuals operating within a strictly national consciousness should not be entrusted with explaining these texts to humanity at large or imposing their own limiting understanding on the world. I conclude by outlining some implications for adult education as a process, a program and a movement. I presented the possible contribution of a transpersonal adult learning theory based on this study's meta-framework as a comprehensive worldview to adult education and learning combining multiple dimensions of being, including the rational, affective, spiritual, imaginative, somatic, and sociocultural domains through relevant experiences of body-mind-spirit. / Ph. D.

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Pressuposto que a justiça é o problema maior da filosofia do direito trata o presente de investigar até que ponto o pensamento do filósofo alemão Hans-Georg Gadamer pode contribuir nesse sentido, considerando-se especialmente o momento da interpretação e aplicação da lei. Ao nosso ver, as ideias de O Grande Velho Homem da Filosofia, levam-nos, primeiramente, à inarredável conclusão de que não existe a possibilidade de uma única interpretação objetivamente sustentável, na medida em que o fenômeno jurídico não consegue ser abarcado pela lei. Mas isso Kelsen há muito havia mostrado-nos. Pretende-se por às claras, ainda, que, quem venha a se ocupar com a filosofia do direito, mais especificamente com interpretação e aplicação do direito, não pode ignorar temas como linguagem, pré-compreensão e tradição. Mais que isso: para nós, Gadamer, especialmente por intermédio da análise da phronesis aristotélica, descortina-nos a ideia de que legislar, agir e aplicar a norma ao caso concreto, de acordo com a funções política, ética e de interpretação e aplicação do direito, passam necessariamente pela noção de bem decidir, sendo coisas indissociáveis e oriundas do mesmo ethos e que ao invés de contentar-nos com soluções epistemológicas, deveríamos tentar desenvolver uma solução de cunho ontológico, como forma de possibilitar um maior controle da justiça no caso concreto, para nós revelada pela aproximação de \"ser\" e \"dever ser\". / Assuming that Justice is the most important problem of laws philosophy, this study comes to investigate whither Hans-Georg Gadamer tought, a german philosopher, can contribute in this regard, especially considering the moment of Laws interpretation and application. To Our view, the ideas of \"The Grand Old Man of Philosophy\", lead us, first, to the unwavering conclusion that there is no possibility of a single interpretation objectively tenable, on the grounds that legal phenomenon cannot be encompassed by law. However, Kelsen had already shown us that a long time ago. Furthermore, it is intended to bring to light, that, who comes to mind with laws philosophy, more specifically with interpretation and law application, cannot ignore some topics as language, pre-understanding and tradition. More than that: for us, Gadamer, especially through the analysis of Aristotelian phronesis, reveal us the idea that legislate, act and apply the standard to an individual case, according to politics, ethics and laws interpretation and application function, pass necessarily through the notion of \"good decision\" being inseparable things and from the same ethos and, rather than being satisfied with epistemological solutions, we should try to establish an ontological solution, in order to enable a higher control of justice failure in concrete cases, revealed for us by the approach of \"is and ought.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-05T17:38:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 20 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A “bioética”, neologismo criado na década de 70 por Van Rensselaer Potter, como um ramo da ética prática, quer se firmar como uma nova disciplina que traça parâmetros às questões relacionadas à vida, sempre ampliando os espaços sociais de discussão, quando há o abuso decorrente do progresso das técnicas ou da ciência em detrimento dos seres humanos. Em que pese os princípios inerentes à própria “bioética”, há na Constituição do Brasil princípios que devem ser utilizados para fundamentar as decisões que envolvem a vida, no entanto, sem que se possa afirmar que há uma apropriação por parte do mundo jurídico da “bioética”, mas sim, que através do ordenamento jurídico existente, busca e se encontra uma maneira de torná-la efetiva, tutelando um direito do qual nenhum ser humano tem o direito de dispor, que é a vida. No entanto, tais fundamentos que subsistem através dos princípios ali inseridos não podem ser vistos como coisas/objetos a serem utilizados a partir do pensamento dogmático que se torna explícito atrav / Bioethics, a neologism created in the 1970´s by Van Rensselaer Potter, as a branch of practical ethics, wants to assert itself as a new subject which establishes parameters to questions related to life, always expanding the social grounds for discussion whenever there is abuse, arising out of technical or scientific progress, to the detriment of human beings. Notwithstanding the principles inherent to bioethics itself, there are principles in the Brazilian Constitution that must be used in order to lay a foundation for decision making that envolves life, nontheless avoiding the possibility of one´s stating that there is an appropriation on the part of the judicial world of bioethics, but looking for and finding a way of making it effective through judicial arranging instead, and by so doing tutoring a legal right which no human being has the right to dispose of, which is life. But, such fundamentals that subsist through the principles inserted therein cannot be envisioned as things/objects to be used in view

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2016-09-01T14:35:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Francisco Valdério Pereira da Silva Júnior.pdf: 1912890 bytes, checksum: 4665cb8564dd1128925fc821bc306a26 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-01T14:35:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Francisco Valdério Pereira da Silva Júnior.pdf: 1912890 bytes, checksum: 4665cb8564dd1128925fc821bc306a26 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-24 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico do Maranhão / This thesis addresses the relationship between Eric Weil and Paul Ricoeur. Despite being their styles fully different, at the treatment of philosophical questions, their perspectives converge in what we advocate here under the statute's project of philosophy - whether for a Logic of Philosophy (Weil), whether in a philosophical hermeneutics (Ricoeur). Weil and Ricoeur opt for this sense in any discourse, even in attempts to eliminate the sense, by attestation of indecision in view of the conflict of interpretations and / or of the impossibility of reducing violence to the speech. Neither the philosophy's logician, nor the hermeneut, it makes any concession to the easy reading of the multiplicity of discourses, trying to suppress them at a totalizing mediation. Nor they give in in to the powerful devastating criticism of the possibility of universalization that by supporting the radical polarization between every speech, consolidates fragmentation and permanent insuperability the deadlock environment. The resource that both throw hand is the resumption: concept able to operate a guidance through the discursive disparities in confrontation, respecting them the difference, while that rises beyond all fragmentation and incommunicability. Accepting the challenge of thinking about continuity, in spite of the ruptures in the history and discourse, they seek lead to reflection at the level of universal understanding by the possibility of coherent directioning, that is, judicious. In this sense, the thesis argues that the taking of Ricoeur's position is not only in favor of the weiliano philosophical project – synthesized in the Kantian formula post-Hegelian –, It is also the effective reappropriation of this active project, now, no longer by the chain of discursive typologies, but through the philosophical singularities / Essa tese aborda a relação entre Éric Weil e Paul Ricoeur. Malgrado estilos inteiramente distintos no tratamento das questões filosóficas, suas perspectivas convergem para o que aqui advogamos sob o estatuto do projeto da filosofia – seja por uma Lógica da Filosofia (Weil), seja numa hermenêutica filosófica (Ricoeur). Weil e Ricoeur optam pelo sentido presente em todo discurso, mesmo no que procura eliminar o sentido pela atestação da indecisão diante do conflito das interpretações e/ou da impossibilidade da redução da violência ao discurso. Nem o lógico da filosofia nem o hermeneuta fazem qualquer concessão à fácil leitura da multiplicidade dos discursos tentando suprimi-los numa mediação totalizadora. Tampouco cedem para a poderosa crítica demolidora da possibilidade de universalização que, ao sustentar a polarização radical entre todos os discursos, consolida a fragmentação e o permanente ambiente de insuperabilidade do impasse. O recurso que ambos lançam mão é a retomada: conceito capaz de operar uma orientação através das disparidades discursivas em confronto, respeitando-lhes a diferença, ao mesmo tempo em que as eleva além de toda fragmentação e incomunicabilidade. Aceitando o desafio de pensar a continuidade a despeito das rupturas, na história e no discurso, buscam conduzir a reflexão ao nível da compreensão universal pela possibilidade do direcionamento coerente, isto é, sensato. Nesse sentido, a tese defende que a tomada de posição de Ricoeur não é apenas em favor do projeto filosófico weiliano – sintetizado na fórmula kantiano pós-hegeliano –, é também a reapropriação efetiva desse projeto atuante, agora, não mais pelo encadeamento das tipologias discursivas, mas através das singularidades filosóficas

Orientador: João Antonio Telles / Banca: Dilma Maria de Mello / Banca: Simone Reis / Banca: Maria Rosa R. M. de Camargo / Banca: José Carlos Miguel / Resumo: Esta tese é uma investigação qualitativa que está fundamentada na concepção teórico-metodológica da Pesquisa Narrativa de Clandinin e Connelly, na Formação do Professor Reflexivo de Donald Schön e na Hermenêutica Filosófica de Gadamer. Em seu acabamento estético (tomando este adjetivo como substantivo foulcaultiano, estética da existência), fundamenta-se na concepção de "saber de experiência" de Larrosa. Nesta pesquisa o que está em suspensão é a vivência da pesquisadora como profissional da educação, cuja história é narrada, reconstruída e revivida, assim como, as histórias da participante, com quem a pesquisadora, de uma forma peculiar, compartilha suas "conversas reflexivas", seus objetos de estudo (relatos e histórias). A tese aqui defendida é a de que a construção do conhecimento pessoal e prático do professor também se dá ao se narrar as histórias de sua experiência profissional e interpretar palavras faladas e escritas - ações estas que são maneiras privilegiadas de acesso à consciência, entendida como abertura (ato intencional) em direção à compreensão do mundo como rede de relações. Assim, este trabalho teve como objetivos gerais (a) resgatar e reviver as histórias da vida pessoal, acadêmica e profissional da pesquisadora envolvida com o exercício da docência num curso de Letras; e (b) resgatar e reconstruir as histórias de vida acadêmica e profissional de uma outra professora, também formadora de professores de Letras, ex-aluna do referido curso. A tese ilustra a relevância teórico-metodológica da pesquisa narrativa para a reflexão e para a transformação da prática profissional dos professores. Os dois estudos aqui contidos, trazem as "conversas reflexivas" e a interpretação hermenêutica como instrumentos de ação social e profissional para o compartilhamento dos sentidos produzidos... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This thesis reports on a qualitative study that is theoretically and methodologically grounded on Narrative Inquiry of D.J. Clandinin and M.F. Connelly, on the Education of the Reflective Teacher of D. Schön, and on Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics. From its aesthetical point of view (by taking this adjective as a foucaultian noun - the aesthetics of existence), the thesis is grounded on Larossa's concept of "knowledge derived from experience". The study focuses on the researcher's lived experiences as a professional in the field of Education. Her stories, as well as those of her participant become the foci of her study and they are narrated, reconstructed and relived in a peculiar way - they are shared by means of "reflective conversations". The thesis here sustained is that the construction of teachers' personal practical knowledge occurs when they tell the stories of their professional experiences and when they interpret the words that are spoken and written. Such actions are privileged ways to access consciousness, here understood as an opening (an intentional act) towards the understanding of the world as a network of relationships. The general objectives of this study, therefore, were (a) to recover and to relive the stories of the personal, academic and professional life of the researcher during her teaching practice in an undergraduate course of Letters; and (b) to recover and to reconstruct the academic and professional stories of another teacher, who is a teacher educator as well, and one of the researcher's former students in that course. The thesis illustrates the theoretical-methodological relevance of Narrative Inquiry to the reflection and transformation of teachers' professional practices. The two studies that are reported here bring "reflective conversations" and the hermeneutic interpretation as instruments of professional and social... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor